A school that banned a teenage girl from wearing a "purity" ring to symbolise her opposition to sex before marriage did not discriminate against her religious beliefs, the High Court ruled today.
Lydia Playfoot, 16, claimed that the ban imposed by the Millais School in Horsham, West Sussex, constituted "unlawful interference" with her fundamental rights to express her Christian faith.
But in a ruling she described as "very disappointing", Michael Supperstone, a deputy High Court judge, said that the school had not breached the Human Rights Act....